View from the Grand Canal of Fondazione Prada's new exhibition space, Ca' Corner della Regina

上周六，艺术史学家和评论家BiceCuriger执导的第54届威尼斯双年展向公众开放，在当代艺术品收藏家和行业内部人士享受了为期三天的预览、派对和健康服务，其中包括巴卡巴拉。
在这座城市的前船院子里，人群嗡嗡地围绕着费休的三个蜡像，其中包括他自己的办公椅的一个燃烧变化和他朋友鲁道夫·小气的画像。
虽然不是新的，但克里斯蒂安·马尔克斯的“时钟”视频让每一位游客在一分钟内用一分钟的剪辑将成千上万的电影压缩成一个24小时。
另一个值得欢迎的重新运行是ErwinWurm的不可能瘦的“狭窄房子”，它落在一片绿草上，与L'Acca菌血症相反。
尽管英国和奥地利的亭台在吉尔迪尼制造了最大的喷溅物，但在这个双年展上的新亮点是出现了中东艺术家，如沙迪亚·阿莱姆和拉贾·阿莱姆(SaudiaArab)、法哈德·莫希里(伊朗)和艾哈迈德·阿尔苏达尼(伊拉克)。
对于时尚的（和深藏的）艺术基金会，用运河景观征用一个壁画的16世纪宫殿已成为21世纪的首选趋势。
在Renzo钢琴改编的FondazioneMoveva（两年前）和TadaoAndo的触碰皮诺基金会的宫殿（现在庆祝它的第五个生日）之后，普拉达已经说了“安奇”io，perFavore。”在一个星期的最预期的事件中,
米兰以米兰为基础的时装店在精致的CA“CornerDellaReina”中打开了通往新家的大门，从基金会的永久收藏中塞满了工程，创建了LucioFontanas、JeffKoons、AnishKapoors和MaurizioCattelans的HEADY混合，以及REMKoolhaas/OMA的在米兰的总部的设计，将于2013年首次亮相

The inaugural exhibition documents the multiple activity of the Fondazione Prada over the years and includes landmark pieces like this work by Lucio Fontana, 'Concetto Spaziale. La Fine di Dio (Spacial Conception. The End of God) 1963.. Photography Attilio Maranzano

..and 'Void Field' 1989 by Anish Kapoor Photography Attilio Maranzano

Just like a real growing virus, Jonana Basconcelos' 'Contamination' was expanded for its 2011 installation in the Pinault Foundation's Palazzo Grassi

Thomas Houseago's 'L'Homme Presse' outside the Pinault Foundation's Palazzo Grassi

Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri's 'Life is Beautiful' work features hundreds of knives stabbing the walls at the Pinault Foundation's Palazzo Grassi

In the Giardini, it was Mike Nelson's installation at the British pavillion that made the biggest splash

Nelson spent 3 months turning the pavillion into a dream-like, disjointed set of chambers

While visitors to the British pavillion would normally walk through it's front entrance into a high, elegant central gallery, Nelson's installation takes you instead into a series of dimly lit, low-ceilinged rooms, which while melancholic are also exquisite

Nelson took inspiration from his 2003 installation in Istanbul which was housed in the Büyük Valide Han, a vast, once-palatial 17th-century travellers' inn that is today a crumbling warren of artisans' workshops

Katharina Fritsch's '6th Still Life' Installation © Katharina Fritsch / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Thomas Hirschhorn's 'Crystal Resistance' installation in the Swiss Pavilion

Thomas Hirschhorn's 'Crystal Resistance' installation in the Swiss Pavilion

Thomas Hirschhorn's 'Crystal Resistance' installation in the Swiss Pavilion

Over at the Arsenale highlights included, 'Untitled', Urs Fischer's second candle sculpture, a portrait of his friend the artist Rudolf Stinge    

Urs Fischer's first wax interpretation, the 'Rape of the Sabine Wome', shown at the last Biennale was installed opposite

109 canvases by Venetian artist Emilio Vedova

Zurich based artist Andro Wekua's 'Pink Wave Hunter' is a series of 15 table-top sculptures of buildings in his now-destroyed home town of Sochumi, Georgia, including this one of the Hotel Abchasia Images copyright Andro Wekua and Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York    

Andro Wekua 'Pink Wave Hunter' (Administrative Building For Steam Navigation), 2010-2011 Wax front and steel scaffolding Images copyright Andro Wekua and Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York

Andro Wekua 'Pink Wave Hunter' (Beach Restaurant Dioskuria), 2010-2011 Images copyright Andro Wekua and Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York Mixed media  

Andro Wekua 'Pink Wave Hunter' (Hotel Ritsa), 2010-2011 Thermoplastic foam, aluminum sheet and acrylic paint Images copyright Andro Wekua and Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York  

Andro Wekua 'Pink Wave Hunter' (Government Building), 2010-2011 Images copyright Andro Wekua and Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York Cast bronze, steel scaffolding and concrete  

Andro Wekua Pink Wave Hunter (Neighbour's House), 2010-2011 Cast aluminum, thermoplastic foam and acrylic paint Images copyright Andro Wekua and Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York

Anselm Kiefer's 'Salt of the Earth' installation in the Magazzino del Sale, a 16th century warehouse recently restored for the Fondazione Vedova by Renzo Piano

Anselm Kiefer's 'Salt of the Earth' installation

Gaetano Pesce's 'L'Italia in Croce' in the Italian Pavilion

Gaetano Pesce's 'Senzafine Unica' chairs, produced by Meritalia

Performance artist Marina Abramovic announced plans to create the Marina Abramovic Community Center Obod Cetinje (MACCOC) in Montenegro which will cultivate music, film, performance art, dance and theater. Overseen by Abramovic, the center will be housed in this gigantic 70,000 square meter space, a former refrigerator factory built in 1953

The exhibit catalog for the 'I Miss My Enemies' show (organized by the Palaces of the Russian Museum Restoration Fund) took the form of a medicine box and instruction manual

Robert Irwin's 'Green River' light installation featured at the Venice in Venice exhibition at Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni    

An untitled sculpture by Robert Irwin at the Venice in Venice exhibit

An original 1939 menu listing the services (and prices) of the brothel formerly found at Bar Ai Specchieri near Piazza San Marco

An installation by Yang Maoyuan in the Chinese Pavilion

Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas' 'Post-vs-Proto-Rennaisance' wooden egg installation inside Venice's Chiesa di San Fantin

Serbian artist Dragoljub Raša Todosijević won UniCredit's Venice Award with 'Light and Darkness of Symbols', a three part installation of his previous works  

Work by Serbian artist Dragoljub Raša Todosijević

Work by Serbian artist Dragoljub Raša Todosijević

Palazzo Fortuny had a wonderful exhibit called 'Tra: Edge of Becoming' View of Fortuny Floor with Giuseppe Penone's 'Palpebra', 1998, Chen Zhen's 'Crystal Landscape of Inner Body, 2000' and a clay Janus Head, 2nd c. BC

View of the restored workshop of Mariano Fortuny at 'Tra: Edge of Becoming'

An interior shot (looking upwards) of Mike and Doug Starn's 50 foot tall Big Bambu installation

Artists Mike and Doug Starn took the first steps along the perimeter of their Big Bambu sculpture, which was installed next door to the Peggy Guggenheim collection